Opinion: Practicing Factfulness based on data.
Speakers at the Microsoft Ignite technical conference introduced themselves by specifying their gender, ethnicity, appearance and personal pronouns, seemingly in line with the meme of “woke-ism” (other definitions here and…
Fake Reviews I get email spam like the following – soliciting my purchase of an Amazon product, whose price will be refunded if I post a positive review. In other…
Source: Facebook wants to re-focus on younger users – Social Panic Facebook sees TikTok-like platforms as having a better strategy. The basic design of TikTok – with short form videos…
Have you noticed that the media is incapable of using the word infrastructure without prefacing it “crumbling“? English should be like German and just combine the words into one: crumblinginfrastructure!…
A new research paper written by a team of academics and computer scientists from Spain and Austria has demonstrated that it’s possible to use Facebook’s targeting tools to deliver an…
While waiting for an order to be fulfilled, I count the number of staff working at fast food restaurants, espresso cafes, and so on. In the past, there were usually…
Public health remains stuck in the dark ages, about 200 years ago. As of October 12, 2012, Oregon Health Authority still asks the public to wear “cloth face coverings” We…
During the pandemic, many corporations moved to online training programs – doing away with offline education seminars, workshops, conference sessions. This also means less business travel, fewer overnight stays, and…
This may explain part of the “worker shortage” – much of it may be a self inflicted shortage created by automated hiring practices: Automated-hiring technology known as Applicant Tracking Systems…
Saving the planet requires that we stop gaping and gawking at travel blogs and vacation selfies. Instead, everyone who cares about the environment should shame those who clamber onto an…